Description: What does healing mean for Christians and others in an
age of science? How can a person relate scientific findings about
one's body, philosophical understanding of one's mind, and
theological investigations about one's spirit into a coherent and
unified model of the person capable of leading one deeper into
one's soul? How does God continue creating through nature and
direct one's wandering toward becoming created co-creators capable
of ministering to others? The reality of human suffering demands
that theology and science mutually inform each other in a shared
understanding of nature, humanity, and paths to healing. Mark
Graves draws upon systems theory, pragmatic philosophy, and
biological and cognitive sciences to distinguish wounds that limit
who a person may become, and uses information theory, emergence,
and Christian theology to define healing as distinct from a return
to a prior state of being and rather instead as creating real
possibility in who the person may become. Endorsements: ""Mark
Graves' new book is a marvel of creative synthesis. He brings
together the latest scientific research on suffering and combines
it with a deeply sensitive understanding of Christian theology to
produce a powerful guide to healing at all levels--physical,
mental, spiritual, and cultural. The emphasis on beauty is
especially valuable as a reminder that true healing involves a
transformative reorientation of the person toward life, nature, and
experience. This book offers wonderful resources for therapists,
ministers, chaplains, doctors, nurses, and anyone involved in
health care. Beyond those practical benefits, Graves has given us a
thought-provoking meditation on the twenty-first-century
relationship between science and theology."" --Kelly Bulkeley
Visiting Scholar Graduate Theological Union ""This book reads like
a contemporary version of Augustine's Confessions. It is grounded
in a religious conversion that resulted over time in a remarkable
change of life for the individual. Likewise, it incorporates a
surprising amount of contemporary philosophy, theology, and natural
science (in this case, neuroscience) into a hierarchical system
based on the notion of creativity and emergence of new forms.
Finally, like the Confessions it takes time to think through and
digest."" --Joseph Bracken, SJ Professor Emeritus of Theology
Xavier University About the Contributor(s): Mark Graves has
twenty-five years' experience researching and modeling cognitive,
biological, and religious dimensions of the person and has
published forty technical and scholarly works in those areas,
including Mind, Brain, and the Elusive Soul (2008). He taught at
Baylor College of Medicine; the University of California, Berkeley;
Santa Clara University; and the Graduate Theological Union,
including on healing and science at the Pacific School of Religion.
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